Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 15th Sep 2005 12:00 UTC
In his latest column,, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols argues that Microsoft Vista is going to be so expensive that it's going to make users think hard about switching to Linux instead. "Desktop Linux is never going to have a better chance than it will in the next eighteen months," he says. My take: He forgets two important factors: Vista can run with all the flashy graphics turned off, and seven editions of Vista? How many Linux distributions are there to choose from?
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I will not comment the first the first part of your post, as it's been done so many times. Regarding your statement on on HP: Yes, they make servers. Among other things. Such as Desktops, Hi-End workstations and laptops. They've recently expressed some interest of selling some of their laptops with Ubuntu pre-installed. That may not make that statement entirely realistical (altough I'd say Dell etc definately would be interested in cutting down their costs by a fair margin), but HP isn't as irrelevant as you proclaim.
Regarding the article: Why? People just get tired of all of this "X will kick Y's arse". It doesn't add to the discussion.
I'd rather see even more articles on the development of KDE, Gnome and Xorg. My guess is that both people supporting Linux/FOSS and Microsoft would find that to be more interesting.